Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.